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A Comparative Study of Current Open-Source Infrastructure As a Service Frameworks A Comparative Study of Current Open-source Infrastructure as a Service Frameworks Theo Lynn, Graham Hunt, David Corcoran, John Morrison and Philip Healy Irish Centre for Cloud Computing, Dublin 9, Ireland Keywords: Cloud Computing, Open Source, IaaS, Openstack, Cloudstack, Opennebula, Eucalyptus. Abstract: With the growth of cloud computing in recent years, several commercial and open source IaaS frameworks have emerged. The development of open source IaaS solutions offers a free and flexible alternative to commercial cloud services. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a qualitative comparative of current open-source IaaS frameworks. Existing research papers examining open source IaaS frameworks have focused on comparing OpenStack with a small number of alternatives. However, current research fails to adequately compare all major open source frameworks in a single study and notably lacks the inclusion of CloudStack. Our research paper provides the first overview of the five main open source cloud IaaS frameworks – OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus and Nimbus. As such, this review provides researchers and potential users with an up to date and comprehensive overview of the features of each solution and allows for an easy comparison between the open source solutions. 1 INTRODUCTION the freedom to modify the source code and build a cloud that is pluggable and open to extensions while Cloud Computing technologies have seen significant reducing costs and avoiding vendor lock-in (Zhang adoption in recent years by enterprises, researchers et al., 2013; Wen et al. 2012; Bist et al., 2013). The and individuals. It is forecast that the Cloud development of open source solutions is of particular Computing industry will reach a market size of $241 importance for the further proliferation of private billion by 2020 (Reid and Kilster, 2011). Cloud and hybrid clouds (Sefraoui, 2012). Computing has become an important tool in The decision to select the most appropriate open delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for users source solution can be a challenge for organizations that require a high level of flexibility and given each framework’s specific characteristics. management of their software stack. While previous studies (Zhang et al., 2013; Dukarić, The last eight years has seen the rapid R. and Jurič, 2013; Endo et al., 2010; Yaday, 2013) proliferation of vendors in the IaaS market, which have compared these frameworks, most have includes major enterprise players such as Amazon focused only on OpenStack and OpenNebula, (Amazon, n.a.), Microsoft (Mircosoft, n.a), Google neglecting CloudStack or have focused on (Google, n.a.), and IBM (Google, n.a.). While these comparing frameworks with different hypervisors services may offer flexibility to the user, (Ristov et al., 2013; Cordeiro , 2010). commentators cite cost, lack of portability and lack The purpose of this paper is to provide a of interoperability as drawbacks to enterprise IaaS qualitative review of the top five open source IaaS (Mahjoub et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2013). With frameworks and present a comparative analysis to each vendor promoting its own infrastructure and aid in framework selection decisions. The incompatible standards, users can suffer from vendor frameworks included in this paper have been chosen lock-in (Mahjoub et al, 2011; Zhang et al., 2013; based on literature reviews and perceived industry Wen et al., 2012). acceptance. The open source frameworks detailed in In some environments it may be preferable for an this paper are OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula, organization to develop their own cloud, based on an Eucalyptus and Nimbus. open source framework. Open source frameworks The paper is structured as follows. In Section II, offer an alternative to enterprise clouds by offering we present a background to the study providing an Lynn T., Hunt G., Corcoran D., Morrison J. and Healy P.. 95 A Comparative Study of Current Open-source Infrastructure as a Service Frameworks. DOI: 10.5220/0005423300950104 In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER-2015), pages 95-104 ISBN: 978-989-758-104-5 Copyright c 2015 SCITEPRESS (Science and Technology Publications, Lda.) CLOSER2015-5thInternationalConferenceonCloudComputingandServicesScience overview of the benefits of Cloud Computing Platform as a Service is when the supplier adoption and discuss the different service models. provides the user with the tools required for Section III provides a qualitative review concerning deploying an app onto the cloud infrastructure (Mell the five chosen frameworks and examines their and Grance, 2011). components. This section also provides a short Finally, Infrastructure as a Service, the focus of overview of closed vs. open source IaaS solutions. this paper, is when the supplier provides the Drawing on the review presented in Section III, consumer with processing, memory, storage, Section IV provides a comparative analysis of the networks, and other computing resources (Mell and identified frameworks based on selected criteria. Grance, 2011). Finally, Section V will discuss our conclusions and recommendations for future developments. 3 OPEN SOURCE IaaS FRAMEWORKS 2 BACKGROUND Enterprise Solutions (or closed frameworks) The National Institute of Standards and Technology typically supply servers and storage to their (NIST) defines Cloud Computing as “a model for customers using their own infrastructure through a enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand public cloud development (Zhang et al., 2013). Open network access to a shared pool of configurable source IaaS frameworks take advantage of open computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, source code which can be modified by users to storage, applications, and services) that can be create a single functional package that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal applied to a network of servers and storage to management effort or service provider interaction” produce IaaS (Zhang et al., 2013). While open (Mell and Grance, 2011). Today it is the most source solutions are typically used to develop private widely cited and accepted definition. This definition clouds they are also suitable for hybrid and public can be expanded to include five additional cloud development models (Salih and Zang, 2012; characteristics of cloud computing. These Ristov et al., 2013; Wen et al., 2012). Recent characteristics have also become widely accepted acquisitions such as Citrix’s purchase of CloudStack and cited; they are on-demand self-service, broad (Keeps, 2014) suggest that we are likely to see network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, further development of public clouds based on open and measured service. The NIST definition of cloud source frameworks, leading to improved computing outlines three service models: software as interoperability between different clouds. a service (SaaS); platform as a service (PaaS); and The main player offering enterprise solutions is infrastructure as a service (IaaS). In addition, it Amazon Web Services, with growing competition outlines four deployment models: private cloud; from competitors including Microsoft, Google, and community cloud; public cloud; and hybrid cloud. IBM (Gartner, 2014). The remainder of this paper will discuss open source frameworks. 2.1 Service Models Five major projects, OpenStack, Apache CloudStack, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus, and Nimbus Cloud Computing is typically classified according to dominate the market for Open Source IaaS. A survey a variety of service models. In recent years, service conducted in July 2014, by Linux.com, of 550 Open models such as Storage as a Service (Fielder et al., Source cloud computing experts found that 2012) and Business Process as a Service (Lynn et OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula, and al., 2014) have emerged. However, the most Eucalyptus are the most popular Open Source IaaS common differentiation of service models remains options with all others receiving less than 2% of the as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a result (Williams, 2014). OpenStack was favoured Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), all with 63 per cent of the vote, followed by of which have been given a definition by NIST. CloudStack, OpenNebula, and Eucalyptus, Software as a Service is when the supplier respectively. OpenStack was also found to be the provides working applications running on their own most popular overall Open Source Cloud Computing cloud infrastructure, typically these applications project. One of the reasons suggested for would be accessed through a web browser or some OpenStack’s popularity is that the strength of the other type of web interface or application (Mell and OpenStack community and the prestige and size of Grance, 2011). the companies who back OpenStack has given it a 96 AComparativeStudyofCurrentOpen-sourceInfrastructureasaServiceFrameworks significant advantage over its alternatives (Voras et and Image Service (Glance). al., 2013). Another reason suggested is that with the Nova is the computing engine behind maturation of the market there has been a focus on OpenStack. It is the cloud computing fabric the bigger projects available in search of a de facto controller and the central element of the IaaS system standard (Voras et al., 2013). (Openstack, n.a.). It manages all the compute An alternative view is that no one Open Source resources of the OpenStack cloud. It includes an API IaaS framework will dominate the
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